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What Do Participation Fluctuations Tell Us About Labor Supply Elasticities?
Haefke, Christian - 2011
participation. A model that is calibrated to replicate the variability of unemployment and participation, and the negative … correlation of unemployment and GDP, implies an aggregate labor supply elasticity along the extensive margin of around 0.3 for men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119024
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Did a Successful Fight Against the Covid-19 Pandemic Come at a Cost? Impacts of the Outbreak on Employment Outcomes in Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh; Nguyen, Cuong Viet - 2021
rich individual-level data from the quarterly Labor Force Surveys. We find that the lockdown increases the unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314778
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Not in My Backyard? The Local Impact of Wind and Solar Parks in Brazil
Scheifele, Fabian; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...
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The Effects of Large Universal Child Benefits on Female Labour Supply
Magda, Iga - 2018
In 2016 the Polish government introduced a large new child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. Increasing out-of-work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914351
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The Great Canadian Recovery : The Impact of COVID-19 on Canada's Labour Market
Jones, Stephen Robert Glenville; Lange, Fabian; … - 2022
stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081272
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Antitrust Enforcement Increases Economic Activity
Babina, Tania; Barkai, Simcha; Jeffers, Jessica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We hand-collect and standardize information describing all 3,055 antitrust lawsuits brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) between 1971 and 2018. Using restricted establishment-level microdata from the U.S. Census, we compare the economic outcomes of a non-tradable industry in states...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337831
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Where Have All the Workers Gone? Recalls, Retirements, and Reallocation in the COVID Recovery
Forsythe, Eliza; Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian; Wiczer, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
At the onset of the COVID pandemic, the U.S. economy suddenly and swiftly lost 20 million jobs. Over the next two years, the economy has been on the recovery path. We assess the labor market two years into the COVID crisis. We show that early employment dynamics were almost entirely driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362041
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Does the Added Worker Effect Matter?
Guner, Nezih - 2020
The added worker effect (AWE) measures the entry of individuals into the labor force due to their partners' job loss. We propose a new method to calculate the AWE, which allows us to estimate its effect on any labor market outcome. We show that the AWE reduces the fraction of households with two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843148
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Labour Market Reallocation Effects of COVID-19 Policies in Spain : A Tale of Two Recessions
Diaz, Antonia; Dolado, Juan Jose; Jáñez, Álvaro; … - 2023
. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357430
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Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States
Jones, Stephen Robert Glenville - 2017
We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …
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